I’ve met too many people who swear that eating spicy foods is more dangerous than having ‘Florida Man’ as your Uber driver. Anytime my in-laws see my kids eating something spicy, they look at my wife and I like we’re letting our kids play in a sandbox filled with cocaine. Speaking of cocaine (you have to love that transition), when I was a resident working at a VA clinic, I had the privilege of taking care of veterans who were trying to get their life together and overcome some of the hardships of war. My vets would come to my clinic eager to share updates about how they’re improving their lives. People would say things like, “I stopped using cocaine, I stopped drinking, I stopped cheating on my old lady, and I stopped eating spicy foods.” I would hear these stories and think to myself, “Whoa, since when did spicy foods become on par with infidelity and cocaine use?”
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